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Loose motion is nature’s method of flushing out of impurities and infection from your body. But when diarrhea infects your child, it can be a very difficult time for both you and your child, even though usually in most cases it will get cured in two or three days.
Because, unlike a cough and cold, when your child is affected with loose motion, theYour child will complain of will lose weight considerably and become weaker and tired due to dehydration. And the bad news is that children tend to get loose motions more often than adults.
You can suspect your child has loose motion or diarrhea if he possess the following symptoms:
If not taken seriously, even otherwise, harmless loose motions can turn to be dangerous due to the possible dehydration. Dehydration is the excessive loss of body fluids – water and salt – from the body. Heavy loss of body fluid is often proved to be a life threatening in the case of children.
So watch closely for the symptoms of dehydration even if you feel that you are giving your child proper fluid intake.
These are the symptoms that your child shows if he is undergoing dehydration:
There are numerous reasons for your child to catch loose motions. It ranges from the changes in the food habits to severe intestinal infections.
Once your child starts to roam around of his own, he tends to lick or bite each and every thing that attracts his attention. Different infectious microorganisms dwell in these things increases the chances of infection that may lead to loose motion
It is found that in small children the transition in the season (such as summer to rainy or rainy to winter) triggers loose motion
Probiotics are good bacteria. Taking probiotics helps to replace the infectious bacteria with healthy bacteria.
Yogurt is an easily available source of probiotics. Give your child 60-180ml of yogurt twice a day
Clear fluids can’t meet the calorie needs of your child’s body. So encourage him to drink milk, if you still breast feed your baby as it is a well-balanced food to consume during diarrhea. Never give cow’s milk or buffalo milk to your baby during this time
Whether loose motion is contagious depends upon the reasons behind the loose motion. If it is merely an outcome of some food intake, it is not contagious. On the other hand, if the loose motion is due to infections caused by microorganisms, it is highly contagious. Loose motion can be spread through direct contact with things or surfaces that are contaminated by infectious germs. Therefore, toys, furniture, toilet seats etc. are good agents of infectious germs. Touching these things and then putting the hand into the mouth will result in spreading of germs among the children.
If you cook without properly cleaning your hands after taking care of your child will result spreading this infection to other members of the family.
You can’t always prevent diarrhea 100% as it is highly contagious. But the following precautionary methods can help to reduce your child’s risk of getting this infection once there is an outbreak of this infection.
In usual cases, with enough fluid intake and proper rest, loose motion slowly subsides in two or three days. If your child doesn’t show any sign of improvement after a day and also if the symptoms mentioned below show up, then we advise you to seek the medical attention.
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